Entry № 3250 · Persian origin

Fariba Fariba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ fah-REE-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Enchanting / beautiful (Persian heritage)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "enchanting / beautiful (persian heritage)".

Fariba is from the Persian farība (فریبا — enchanting, captivating, beautiful). Fariba Naderi — Iranian-American academic. Fariba Hashtroodi — Iranian-American figure. Princess Fariba — Persian heritage naming.

Enchanting / beautiful (Persian heritage) — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

فریبا
Transliteration
Farība
Pronunciation
/ fɑːˈriː.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Fariba stands.

Fariba does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Faribas before her.

Real people
Fariba Adelkhah
Iranian-French Sciences Po anthropologist.
born 1959
Fariba Vafi
Iconic Iranian novelist.
born 1962
In fiction
Fariba
Persian enchanting.

Names connected to Fariba.

The number behind Fariba.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fariba reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.